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Title / Service advanced moulds for injection moulding
Level / 2 / Credits / 4
Purpose / People credited with this unit standard are able to demonstrate knowledge of the construction and operation of advanced injection moulds, and service advanced moulds.
Classification / Plastics Processing Technology > Injection Moulding
Available grade / Achieved
Entry information
Recommended skills and knowledge / Unit 258, Service simple moulds for injection moulding;or demonstrate equivalent knowledge and skills.
Explanatory notes
1All work practices must meet enterprise health and safety requirements.
2Definitions
Enterprise – an organisation where training and/or assessment is taking place, and/or where the trainee is employed.
Enterprise procedure – actions which comply with the policies, systems, and directives in a particular enterprise. Enterprise procedure must comply with the requirements of the Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992, and subsequent amendments.
Advanced injection mould refers to a two or three plate mould with one or more product forming components which:
- move in a direction other than the mould open axis, and/or
- are driven by the mould rather than external actuation, and/or
- incorporates in-mould labelling technology.
Excludes moulds which retain molten material within the mould between cycles. Typical features may include: sliding blocks or cores actuated by skew pins or cams; baffled, spiral, tube, and heat pipe cooling systems; rising cores; internally actuated unscrewing systems.
Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Demonstrate knowledge of the construction and operation of advanced injection moulds.
Evidence requirements
1.1Injection mould construction is described.
1.2Injection mould functions and operations are described.
Rangefunctions and operations may include – injection, cooling, opening, ejection, closing, electrical sensing and/or interlocking;
evidence is required for at least five.
Outcome 2
Service advanced injection moulds.
Rangeevidence is required for two moulds with different configurations.
Evidence requirements
2.1Injection mould is opened on a bench in accordance with enterprise procedure.
2.2Injection mould is inspected for wear, cleaned, and any damage is reported, in accordance with enterprise procedures.
2.3Injection mould lubrication is carried out in accordance with enterprise schedule.
2.4Injection mould closing-up procedures are performed in accordance with enterprise requirements.
Rangeclosing-up procedures include – inspection, cleaning, protective spraying, cooling medium removal, tag tools, tool storage.
This unit standard is expiring. Assessment against the standard must take place by the last date for assessment set out below.
Status information and last date for assessment for superseded versions
Process / Version / Date / Last Date for AssessmentRegistration / 1 / 28 April 1993 / 31 December 2013
Revision / 2 / 13 February 1997 / 31 December 2013
Review / 3 / 23 January 1998 / 31 December 2013
Review / 4 / 24 August 2006 / 31 December 2019
Review / 5 / 21 March 2013 / 31 December 2019
Review / 6 / 15 September 2016 / 31 December 2019
Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR) reference / 0134
This CMR can be accessed at
Please note
Providers must be granted consent to assess against standards (accredited) by NZQA, before they can report credits from assessment against unit standards or deliver courses of study leading to that assessment.
Industry Training Organisations must be granted consent to assess against standards by NZQA before they can register credits from assessment against unit standards.
Providers and Industry Training Organisations, which have been granted consent and which are assessing against unit standards must engage with the moderation system that applies to those standards.
Requirements for consent to assess and an outline of the moderation system that applies to this standard are outlined in the Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR). The CMR also includes useful information about special requirements for organisations wishing to develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for tutors and assessors, and special resource requirements.
CompetenzSSB Code 101571 / New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2018 / / New Zealand Qualifications Aut